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‘Levelling up’ in post-Brexit United Kingdom: Economic realism or political opportunism? (2022)
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Hudson, R. (2022). ‘Levelling up’ in post-Brexit United Kingdom: Economic realism or political opportunism?. Local Economy, 37(1-2), 50-65. https://doi.org/10.1177/02690942221099480

Following the 2019 general election, the Prime Minister claimed that leaving the EU would enable him to ‘get Brexit done’ and introduce policies to “level up” inequalities in a post-EU UK. There still is, however, considerable uncertainty as to exact... Read More about ‘Levelling up’ in post-Brexit United Kingdom: Economic realism or political opportunism?.

Moving to a Green Economy? The Story of an “Unjust” Transition in the UK (2022)
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Beynon, H., & Hudson, R. (2022). Moving to a Green Economy? The Story of an “Unjust” Transition in the UK. International union rights, 29(1), 23-25

Coal played a central part in the discussions at the COP26 conference on climate change held in Glasgow in 2021. Here it was established as the most deadly of the carbon fuels with the future of the planet depending upon its eradication. This was a c... Read More about Moving to a Green Economy? The Story of an “Unjust” Transition in the UK.

Capitalism, Contradiction, Crises: Pushing back the limits to capital or breaching the capacity of the planetary ecosystem? (2021)
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Hudson, R. (2021). Capitalism, Contradiction, Crises: Pushing back the limits to capital or breaching the capacity of the planetary ecosystem?. Area Development and Policy, 6(2), 123-142. https://doi.org/10.1080/23792949.2020.1854615

Capitalist economies are structured around two fundamental contradictions. The first lies within the social relations of capital, and the second in the ‘metabolic rift’ between capital accumulation and nature. While the adverse effects of the first d... Read More about Capitalism, Contradiction, Crises: Pushing back the limits to capital or breaching the capacity of the planetary ecosystem?.

Life post-Brexit in the Divided Realm (2020)
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Hudson, R. (2021). Life post-Brexit in the Divided Realm. European Urban and Regional Studies, 28(1), 14-19. https://doi.org/10.1177/0969776420965639

Following the confirmation by the UK Parliament that the UK would leave the European Union on 1 January 2021, this article analyses the likely impact of BREXIT on socio-spatial inequalities in the UK. It argues that inequalities will be further ampli... Read More about Life post-Brexit in the Divided Realm.

The illegal, the illicit and new geographies of uneven development (2018)
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Hudson, R. (2020). The illegal, the illicit and new geographies of uneven development. Territory, Politics, Governance, 8(2), 161-176. https://doi.org/10.1080/21622671.2018.1535998

There have been significant changes in the geographies of uneven development and a considerable literature documenting these, at varying spatial scales. There is, however, a significant absence in the urban and regional development literature as to t... Read More about The illegal, the illicit and new geographies of uneven development.

Facing Forwards, Looking Backwards: Coming to Terms with Continuing Uneven Development in Europe (2017)
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Hudson, R. (2017). Facing Forwards, Looking Backwards: Coming to Terms with Continuing Uneven Development in Europe. European Urban and Regional Studies, 24(2), 138-141. https://doi.org/10.1177/0969776416689230

At a time of major changes in the geography of the global economy, and following the major financial and economic crises of 2007/2008, the European Union (EU) is marked by deepening uneven economic development, between and within the territories of i... Read More about Facing Forwards, Looking Backwards: Coming to Terms with Continuing Uneven Development in Europe.

Rising powers and the drivers of uneven global development (2016)
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Hudson, R. (2016). Rising powers and the drivers of uneven global development. Area Development and Policy, 1(3), 279-294. https://doi.org/10.1080/23792949.2016.1227271

The emergence of the rising powers has been seen as heralding a fundamental shift in global economic geography. It can also be seen as the latest expression of capitalist economic development. I first consider theorizations of this development as com... Read More about Rising powers and the drivers of uneven global development.

Thinking through the relationships between legal and illegal activities and economies: Spaces, flows and pathways. (2014)
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Hudson, R. (2014). Thinking through the relationships between legal and illegal activities and economies: Spaces, flows and pathways. Journal of Economic Geography, 14(4), 775-795. https://doi.org/10.1093/jeg/lbt017

My purpose in this article is selectively to draw upon and use the available evidence to summarise the various forms/types of illegal activities, their relationships to the formal legal economy, their various spatialities and geographies, and to iden... Read More about Thinking through the relationships between legal and illegal activities and economies: Spaces, flows and pathways..

Contemporary crisis across Europe and the crisis of regional development theories (2013)
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Hadjimichalis, C., & Hudson, R. (2013). Contemporary crisis across Europe and the crisis of regional development theories. Regional Studies, 48(1), 208-218. https://doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2013.834044

Hadjimichalis C. and Hudson R. Contemporary crisis across Europe and the crisis of regional development theories, Regional Studies. This paper explores the prima facie puzzling issue of why so much contemporary theory in economic geography and region... Read More about Contemporary crisis across Europe and the crisis of regional development theories.

Critical Political Economy and Material Transformation (2012)
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Hudson, R. (2012). Critical Political Economy and Material Transformation. New Political Economy, 17(4), 373-397. https://doi.org/10.1080/13563467.2011.578736

The starting point for this paper is that critical political economy needs to take up the challenge that originates in Marx's seminal contributions of conceptualising the economy as both processes of value creation and processes of material transform... Read More about Critical Political Economy and Material Transformation.

Territorial agglomeration and industrial symbiosis: Sitakunda-Bhatiary, Bangladesh, as a secondary processing complex (2012)
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Gregson, N., Crang, M., Ahamed, F., Akter, N., Ferdous, R., Foisal, S., & Hudson, R. (2012). Territorial agglomeration and industrial symbiosis: Sitakunda-Bhatiary, Bangladesh, as a secondary processing complex. Economic Geography, 88(1), 37-58. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1944-8287.2011.01138.x

This article both joins with recent arguments in economic geography that have made connections between work on industrial symbiosis and agglomerative tendencies and recasts this work. Drawing on the case of Sitakunda-Bhatiary, Bangladesh, it shows th... Read More about Territorial agglomeration and industrial symbiosis: Sitakunda-Bhatiary, Bangladesh, as a secondary processing complex.

From knowledge based economy … to knowledge based economy? Reflections on changes in the economy and development policies in the North East of England (2011)
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Hudson, R. (2011). From knowledge based economy … to knowledge based economy? Reflections on changes in the economy and development policies in the North East of England. Regional Studies, 45(7), 997-1012. https://doi.org/10.1080/00343400802662633

From knowledge-based economy to … knowledge-based economy? Reflections on changes in the economy and development policies in the North East of England, Regional Studies. Against the background of claims made about the emergence of a new knowledge-bas... Read More about From knowledge based economy … to knowledge based economy? Reflections on changes in the economy and development policies in the North East of England.

Life on the edge: navigating the competitive tensions between the 'social' and the 'economic' in the social economy and in its relations to the mainstream (2009)
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Hudson, R. (2009). Life on the edge: navigating the competitive tensions between the 'social' and the 'economic' in the social economy and in its relations to the mainstream. Journal of Economic Geography, 9(4), 493-510. https://doi.org/10.1093/jeg/lbp005

Drawing on detailed empirical research in the UK, in this article I explore the motivations that lie behind the formation of social economy organisations (SEOs) and the multiple trajectories that these can then follow and the tensions to which this c... Read More about Life on the edge: navigating the competitive tensions between the 'social' and the 'economic' in the social economy and in its relations to the mainstream.

Cultural political economy meets global production networks: a productive meeting? (2008)
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Hudson, R. (2008). Cultural political economy meets global production networks: a productive meeting?. Journal of Economic Geography, 8(3), 421-440. https://doi.org/10.1093/jeg/lbn005

In this article, I explore some of the implications of pursuing a cultural political economy (CPE) approach to the analysis of global production networks (GPNs). This raises three sets of issues: the current state of knowledge about GPNs; the current... Read More about Cultural political economy meets global production networks: a productive meeting?.